This is a quick and easy to understand guide to learn some popular information about furnitures. If you have a term or phrase that you want to learn more about, click on its beginning letter down below.
This glossary of common furniture terms may help familiarizing yourself with furnitures. It may also help improving your product knowledge on different kind of furnitures, and on furniture construction as well.
Furniture terms
Manchette - A small upholstered patch or cushion on an armrest.
Marquetry - The inlay of a material (contrast wood, Mother-of-Pearl, ivory, etc) into the veneer of wood to create a beautiful pattern.
Matte - Rough and warm surfaces, more flat than shiny.
Mission - An American version of the Arts & Crafts movement in furniture design created by Gustav Stickley featuring the simple and symmetrical designs found in Southwestern missions.
Modernist - Clean lined contemporary design of the 20th century utilizing freedom of form and without ornamentation.
Moiré - A fabric featuring a swirled pattern that resembles water patterns on silk.
Molding - Used for decoration, shaped strips protruding from or sunk into a surface.
Mortise and Tenon - A type of joinery used to attach two perpendicular pieces of wood where a carved out notch of one fits into a carved out hole of the other.
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